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No. Most tornadoes could not pick up a typical car. However, a fair portion still can.
Aniyah Blanda
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∙ 11y agoA strong enough one could, yes. This would usually take a relatively strong tornado though. The Joplin tornado of 2011 carried semis upwards of a quarter mile.
The link below shows a tornado in Texas tossing empty semi trailers at a Dallas trucking company.
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∙ 11y agoNo. Most tornadoes could not pick up a typical car. However, a fair portion still can.
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∙ 12y agoOnly very strong ones. It would take at least a strong EF3 tornado to lift up a train, which would be in the top 2-3% of tornadoes.
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Can a tornado pick up an airplane?
Yes. Tornadoes have been known to lift up airplanes.
Can a tornado pick up heavy things?
Yes. Tornadoes are incredibly powerful.
How do tornadoes pick stuff up?
Air in a tornado move upward rapidly and can carry objects with it.
Why can tornadoes pick up whole buildings?
It is actually quite rare for a tornado to pick up an entire building. Such things usually only happen in EF4 and EF5 tornadoes. Such tornadoes have extremely powerful winds that spiral upward. The upward motion can exert more force on a building than gravity does, and thus lift it into their.
Can tornadoes pick stuff up?
Yes. Even very weak tornadoes will lift dust and twigs. Stronger tornadoes can lift roofs, garages, barns, and some vehicles. The most violent tornadoes will lift large trucks, train cars, and even well built houses.
How do you attach trailers to semis in mercs 2?
you can't but you can pick up the trailer with the winch on a helicopter
Can tornadoes pick up any rare items?
They can pick up endangered animals or plants, and I suppose if a rare jewel was lying around, they could pick it up.
Do tornadoes pick up anything in their way?
No. Most tornadoes are not strong enough to lift very heavy objects. Very violent tornadoes can pick up structures such as houses and churches but even tornadoes like that only produce such winds along a relatively small portion of the damage path.
Can a tornado pick up an airplane?
Yes. Tornadoes have been known to lift up airplanes.
Can a tornado pick up heavy things?
Yes. Tornadoes are incredibly powerful.
What are the tornadoes made of?
Tornadoes are just rapidly moving columns of air. The reason that they are black is because that is the color of the dirt that they pick up.
Could anyone be picked up by a tornado?
Yes. People have been picked up by tornadoes. Violent tornadoes can pick up objects far larger and heavier than people.
Tornadoes pick up dirt and what else?
It varies depending on where the tornado goes and how strong it is. In addition to dirt even weak tornadoes can pick up pieces of vegetation and any light, loose objects that happen to be in their path. Stronger tornadoes can pick up light vehicles, roofs, and outbuildings. The very strongest tornadoes can lift virtually anything, including whole trees, well-constructed houses, train cars, and even pieces of asphalt.
Can tornadoes pick up us?
Most definitely they snatch up houses, trucks, cars, cows etc. a human for a tornado is a light load to pick up and spit out.
How do tornadoes pick stuff up?
Air in a tornado move upward rapidly and can carry objects with it.
Why can tornadoes pick up whole buildings?
It is actually quite rare for a tornado to pick up an entire building. Such things usually only happen in EF4 and EF5 tornadoes. Such tornadoes have extremely powerful winds that spiral upward. The upward motion can exert more force on a building than gravity does, and thus lift it into their.
How do people die because of tornadoes?
some people die of tornadoes because if they are outside the tornado can pick them up and throw them down so hard they can die.
